Join us on June 7 for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, CA). Enjoy an after-hours viewing of Seeing through Stone with student-led exhibition walkthroughs at 5:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission is always free.

Student-led Tour Schedule:
5:15 p.m.: Tour by Alexandra Singer
6 p.m.: Tour by Aiko-Bliss Ponce

Seeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current global realities of the prison complex, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty national and international artists and collectives, sixteen newly commissioned projects, as well as works of video, painting, sculpture, installation, sound and performance. Seeing through Stone is a collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz, San José Museum of Art, and Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, and works are on view at all three sites.

On the third floor of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences view a A Portfolio of Prints By UCSC Alumni as part of the UCSC Print Sale Jubilee this year. They have put together an exhibition highlighting the work that has come out of the print studios over the past 50 years by selecting 16 printmaking UCSC alumni to create an original print to become part of a limited edition portfolio. This portfolio will be on view at Institute of Art and Sciences in June and will become part of the university archives. Learn more here.

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour.

Image: Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González, Las 7 puertas from Tiempo Muerto, Proyecto para Sección Abierta (Cárcel de Palma de Mallorca), 2011-2013. Installation view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Seeing through Stone, on view April 12, 2024-January 5, 2025. Image by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.